{"id":16743,"date":"2017-12-28T16:06:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=16743"},"modified":"2017-12-28T16:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:06:48","slug":"fifa-presents-badges-to-29-nigerian-refs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=16743","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Presents Badges to 29 Nigerian Refs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=16744\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16744\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ref.jpg\" alt=\"ref\" width=\"816\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ref.jpg 816w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ref-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ref-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FIFA has presented badges to 29 Nigerian referees Trumpeta sports desk gatheres.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Referees Association, Kelechi Mejuobi, they are 22 men and seven women referees.<\/p>\n<p>He said the male referees consist of 14 centre referees and assistant referees, four futsal referees and four beach soccer referees while the seven women are all football referees and assistant referees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the 2017 approved referees, Abubakar Ago \u2013 from male football \u2013 Hadiza Musa \u2013 from female football \u2013 and Ushie Micheal \u2013 from beach soccer \u2013 all retired and have been replaced by three young referees \u2013 Abubarka Abdulahi (men\u2019s football), Patience Madu (women\u2019s football) and Olayinka Olajide (beach soccer),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe referees received their FIFA badges from the Nigeria Football Federation officials in Kano and are available to officiate in any continental game \u2013 as well as domestic matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 FIFA has presented badges to 29 Nigerian referees Trumpeta sports desk gatheres. According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16745,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/revisions\/16745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}